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Glauber was born at Karlstadt, Germany, and was largely self-educated, visiting laboratories in Paris, Basel, Salzburg, and Vienna where he studied chemistry and alchemy.He was, for a short time after 1635, court apothecary in Giessen. He then settled in Amsterdam where he remained for most of the rest of his life.lauber was born at Karlstadt, Germany, and was largely self-educated, visiting laboratories in Paris, Basel, Salzburg, and Vienna where he studied chemistry and alchemy.
His treatises, about 30 in number, were collected and published at Frankfort in 1658-1659, at Amsterdam in 1661, and, in an English translation by Packe, at London in 1689. GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. JOHANN RUDOLF GLAUBER (1604-1668), German chemist, was born at Karlstadt, Bavaria, in 1604 and died at Amsterdam in 1668.ittle more is known of his life than that he resided successively in Vienna, Salzburg, Frankfurt and Cologne before settling in Holland, where he made his living chiefly by the sale of secret chemical and medicinal preparations.